Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Thierry De Cordier

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    Courtesy of the artist, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, © SABAM Belgium 2018, image: (c) Dirk Pauwels
    MER GROSSE, 2011
    Thierry De Cordier
    Painting , 163 x 150,5 cm
    oil paint on paper mounted on panel

    In the exhibition Sanguine/Bloedrood, Thierry De Cordier is represented by an extraordinarily tempestuous work, Mer Grosse from 2011. The painted image consists for eighty percent of raging water, bordered at the top by a grey band of mist behind which a vague light seems to glow. It is the sea as we would rather not think of it: threatening and unfathomable. De Cordier paints this frontal view of nature with extreme precision in various shades of grey, accented with a few patches of swirling white foam. Mer Grosse is simultaneously overwhelming and ominous; it reveals the artist in his awful predicament, surrounded by a fatal sea.

    Text: Hans Willemse
    Translations: Michael Meert

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